ever been arrested while running?

I got stopped for jaywalking (running across the street against a traffic light). Fat cop wrote me a ticket, and threatened to add "vagrancy" to the ticket since I did not have any ID on me. Cost me $50!.

yeah, last saturday night i was running at 3 am because i was working all day and some cop mistakingly thought a white guy wearing a white shirt and some running shorts and running along at a good click had to be causing some kind of trouble so instead of just stopping he decides to screach to a halt (probably waking up some of the neighbors) and make me stop my run while he asked me some pointless questions and finally let me go.

Why didn't you just run? He wasn't going to shoot you.

I was once "pulled over" running down and off ramp that led to a highway. I was just cutting over to my building but the cop though I was going to run on the shoulder of the highway. I think I would have jetted if he asked for ID or tried to write a ticket. There was no way I was going to get caught.

While doing some off season training I got pulled over by the Highway patrol for speeding on my bike when I went through an intersection at 35 mph

i took a group of kenyans to the parkersburg half in 2002. the morning before the race they got up and left the hotel for a 45 minute run - 20 minutes later they're back in a cop car. he'd picked 'em up running down the median of the interstate - guess that nice grassy lane looked inviting.

The first time I was stopped was at 6 AM on a Sunday morning in 1967 for running a red light. There was no traffic. The policeman was very upset when he found out that I had nothing but a key to my apartment with me. No one ran in those days so he was amazed when I said that I was on a 15 mile run and was training for the Boston Marathon. I told him that if he drove me the 5 miles home that I would get ID from my apartment. He let me go but then I noticed that he was hiding at each corner for the next couple of miles. If the light was red, I turned the corner and went half way up the block before I went across for the next couple of miles. I got a longer run in than I had planned to do.

I got arrested and slapped with a $400 fine once for running on my own college campus late one night. Some fat rent-a-cop thought I had broken into a building or something and was fleeing the scene so he called up every police unit in the county. Pretty soon there's cops all over the place, so I just stopped and explained my story to them. They all thought it was hilarious! The rent-a-cop didn't see the humor in all of it since he had to run for a little bit and he charged me with obstructing an officer.

I have been pulled over (yes, with the rollers on) twice for not running on the sidewalk. The first time I was with a large group and the other time I was alone. No ticket either time, "... just a warning ...".

One time I was out with a group that went through a shortcut by an outdoor theather while a play was being performed. Some large security guy thought we were raiding the place and pulled a COPS on us, tackling one guy and holding him down till a local cop showed up. It probably would have ended as a funny story, but the knucklehead member of our group started mouthing off to the cop and got himself arrested.

I've also been evicted from golf courses under threat of arrest on a few occasions.

I was running on Griffiss AFB (now closed) in NY on a road I thought was ok to run on. But as it turned out it was still in a secured area. Not having an ID on me didn't help the situation any, but being a long haired, earring wearing contractor really didn't help at all. Luckily I'd been working on military installations long enough not to get shook up and had them call my work-place to verify it was ok for me to be on base. When the cops brought me back to the shop everybody was at the front door to have a good laugh. I ran with an ID badge for about two weeks after that then went back to the normal ID-less runs.

I once had the police stop me and a few others while running on a track one night. I don't know why he stopped us, the track was always opened....might have been because we were naked I guess.

I got arrested for running from the cops...does that count?

I was pulled over in-line skating in the middle of the road (not very smart, I know), and for speeding past slow moving traffic (also, not very smart, but fun). No ticket--just a warning.

In Boulder in the late '60's, I ran through a red light and was stopped by a policeman and warned. It was good that he didn't follow me because I had to run the next light as well.

That same year an Olympic walker, Bill Wiegle, was hauled into the station for walking on the wrong side of the highway coming back from IBM.

Not arrested, but "warned". During the hurricane (Isabel?)last year in the NOVA area of DC , I decided to go out for one of my usual 10 milers. It was great, no traffic, I felt like a hardass for running in the wind and rain. Well, some stupid FFX county cop sees me, flicks on the lights and stops me. Tells me I'm not allowed to be on the street, and that I had to get home immediatly. Well, I told him I was about 4 miles from home (actually true), and because I was soaking wet, I guess he didn't want to give me a ride. So I was told to get back home, and not to go back outside until the storm was over.

So I completed my run.

1985 on the University of Wisconsin - Stout Campus. I placed in the top 10 in the nude mile (running for UW-Eau Claire)...too drunk at the finish to realize the house party was surrounded by cop cars. Put in jail for a few hours until I got bailed out. Ended up paying $155 disorderly conduct fine. Was my best race of the year. My teammate Bill Morris and I were finger printed and had our photo's taken. We had ink all over our faces when they took the photo's as we were slapping each other in the face when we had the ink on our fingers. Man, I miss those days.

When your driving and a cop turns on his lights, do you just keep driving?

When the police "detain" you, it is the same as being under arrest. If you flee while being detained, they call it "evading arrest". I'll take the traffic violation over a criminal violation anyday.

If you would have "jetted", who would you have called to bail you out of jail?

Dan Held....if that's you, leave me your email address! I've been wanting to get ahold of you to run.

Nick B.

in Belle Meade, a part of Nashville, TN they have a law that allows the cops to ticket people for moving at a brisk pace. apparently you must be up to no good if you are running from something. I know they have ticketed 40-year old women out for training runs that work in the area.